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MIT Professor Michael Hawley

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the life-is-a-game dept.

cyranoVR writes "Today's CBS This Morning ran an interesting profile on MIT Professor Michael Hawley. Aside from recently publishing a super-jumbo-sized book about the Kingdom of Bhutan, he has invented (among other things) an interactive kitchen counter, designed a heart monitor embedded in jewelry, contributed to the MIT Toys of Tomorrow project and has written several classical compositions for piano. What really struck me was Hawley's observation that 'today's computers aren't musical enough.' For him, there is 'no difference between an ivory keyboard and a QWERTY keyboard.' I think it's a good thing that the mainstream media is starting to show how 'computer nerds' (as the correspondent identified Hawley) can be rich individuals with much more to their lives than hardware upgrades, programming languages and pocket protectors."

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  1. Gnome sucks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ng whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool checking for gawk... gawk checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating gnome-common.spec config.status: creating macros/Makefile config.status: creating macros2/Makefile config.status: creating bin/Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating doc-build/Makefile config.status: creating doc-build/gnome-doc-common Now type `make' to compile Gnome Skeleton

  2. holy shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A fellow Hawley on /.!

    I've never met someone with the same last name as me, and now I know one of them is an MIT nerd.

    yay.

    (actually there is an astronaut named Hawley as well) yeah, I rock.

  3. Classical composition? by FuegoFuerte · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aside from recently publishing a super-jumbo-sized book... he... has written several classical compositions for piano.

    Umm.... not to get too technical or anything, but if he is currently alive he can not possibly have written a classical composition. He may have composed a piece in a classical style, but there is a significant difference between the two. Vanessa Carlton could be said to have composed a work in a classical style, but very few would call it a classical composition (and they who do would be wrong).